UPDATED: Looks like another big, new shiny toy for the Ducks

UPDATE: Just off the phone with Jim Bartko, Oregon's senior super duper associate athletic director in charge of cool new stuff.

Here's the deal: Oregon's replacing the scoreboard. The money -- $2 million -- comes from the agreement signed months ago with IMG. That leaves another $2 million left to be split between new scoreboards for basketball and baseball. Baseball's new scoreboard will go with its new stadium. New, new, new.

Dimensions?

Bartko says it'll be 88-feet wide by 33-feet high -- bigger than the board Oregon State installed last year.

"It was kind of a last second decision," Bartko said.

But it worked out to do it this year and, let's be honest, with a 7 p.m. game against Washington to open the season, it'll look real pretty.
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There's a benefit to living in the same city as the team you cover. An example: When you get wind of scoreboard work being done on the football stadium, you can scoot over and take a look.